Eric Hoffer Quotes

A nation without dregs and malcontents is orderly, peaceful and pleasant, but perhaps without the seed of things to come.

Eric Hoffer

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• I think fashion is actually very good training for being in the tech world, because it's all about moving on to the next thing, looking for the next thing, not getting stuck in the past.

  

  Natalie Massenet
  • World
  • Good
  • Past

• This opinion, however, is held by most, that the devil was an angel, and that, having become an apostate, he induced as many of the angels as possible to fall away with himself, and these up to the present time are called his angels.

  

  Origen
  • Up
  • Time
  • Fall

• Bruce always had to tell a lie. He was always living that lie. Caitlyn doesn't have any secrets.

  

  Caitlyn Jenner
  • Living
  • Lie
  • Secrets

• At Harvard, I got to meet and have dinner with Jamaica Kincaid. Just to have conversations with professors was absolutely amazing.

  

  Yara Shahidi
  • Amazing
  • Dinner
  • Meet

• I was fascinated with jeans, because you can impress your life upon the jeans you wear. The way you sit imprints on the jeans.

  

  Jack Dorsey
  • Life
  • You
  • Jeans

• History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • People
  • History
  • Past

• If somebody has too much stress about their appearance, they can overcome their inferiority complex through surgery.

  

  Park Shin-hye
  • Stress
  • Appearance
  • Too Much

• It is natural for us, as human beings, to look forward. Our eyes naturally look ahead. In this sense, we are made for moving toward a goal.

  

  Daisaku Ikeda
  • Eyes
  • Moving
  • Goal

• I don't like Communism because it hands out wealth through rationing books.

  

  Omar Torrijos Herrera
  • Hands
  • Wealth
  • Communism

• Kansas City is one of the most convenient airports in the nation.

  

  Sam Graves
  • City
  • Nation
  • Kansas

• I admired the way McCain worked on campaign finance reform. I admired the way Nancy Pelosi stiffened the Democrats' spine during the health care debate. I admire the way Barack Obama has raised a dog in the White House without ever putting it on the roof of the car for a vacation drive.

  

  Gail Collins
  • House
  • Health
  • Car

• I think there are too many bosses in Washington telling Nashville Diesel College and Harvard University how to run - how to run their campuses, and I'd like to reduce the number of Washington regulations on higher education and keep this marketplace of wonderful institutions among which students can choose; that's oriented toward job growth.

  

  Lamar Alexander
  • Job
  • Education
  • College

• History repeats itself. So you might wanna pay attention.

  

  Quavo Migos
  • History
  • You
  • Attention

• I don't feel any need to play the role of the clown. In my private life I take a break from humor.

  

  Gad Elmaleh
  • Life
  • Feel
  • Humor

• I don't think anyone has been slandered more than the Jews.

  

  Fidel Castro
  • Think
  • More
  • Jews

• Fans who drive insane amount of hours to come to a show still amazes me. I mean, it can get up to 10 hours! That's loyalty.

  

  Taylor Dye
  • Up
  • Me
  • Fans

• All who have accomplished great things have had a great aim, have fixed their gaze on a goal which was high, one which sometimes seemed impossible.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Great
  • High
  • Goal

• Even painless research is fascism, supremacism, because the act of confinement is traumatizing in itself.

  

  Ingrid Newkirk

• Never underestimate the intrinsic, as opposed to ideological, conservatism of an idea like revolution once it’s got some momentum behind it.

  

  Charles Stross
  • Revolution

• Every weekend, I'm on the highway to Antwerp. I need to be there, to have the calm. It's a whole different life: I jump on my bike, and it's so small, I can be anywhere in a minute. I like to be at home when there's free time because when you're at a big company, you're constantly surrounded by 30 people.

  

  Raf Simons
  • People
  • Life
  • Time

• I quite like the Queen. Now, this must come as a fairly amazing statement for someone who is avowedly left wing, pro-independence and anti-monarchy, but there you go.

  

  John Niven
  • Amazing

• The Second World War claimed tens of millions of victims.

  

  Jean-Marie Le Pen
  • World
  • War

• Poetry, unlike oratory, should not aim at clarity... but be dense with meaning, 'something to be chewed and digested'...

  

  George Chapman
  • Poetry

• A nation without dregs and malcontents is orderly, peaceful and pleasant, but perhaps without the seed of things to come.

  

  Eric Hoffer